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Creating an Advance Health Care Directive

June 8, 2013 by Stephen Unsworth

To create an advance health care directive you will choose an agent and you will complete a form to be witnessed by two witnesses. Your witnesses must be competent adults; legally they cannot be your agent or alternate agent. Also family members including your spouse, siblings, parents or grandparents, children or grandchildren, cannot be witnesses for your advance healthcare directive. In addition to naming an agent, your advance healthcare directive should indicate which services you are … [Read more...] about Creating an Advance Health Care Directive

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